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Gandora the Dragon of Destruction
How to get / Rarity
Evaluation
Tips, related cards, skills
Decks
Classifications

Gandora the Dragon of Destruction

Gandora the Dragon of Destruction

Attribute	DARK
Monster Type	Dragon
Card type	Effect
Card Effect Type	Summoning condition / Ignition Effect / Continuous Effect / Trigger Effect
Level	★8
Passcode	64681432

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Cannot be Special Summoned. You can pay half your LP; destroy as many cards on the field as possible (other than this card), and if you do, banish them. This card gains 300 ATK for each card destroyed this way. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Normal or Flip Summoned this turn: Send it to the Graveyard.

How to get / Rarity

Pack	--
Level-up reward	--
Victory against	Yugi Muto [UR]
Card trader	--
Other	Ranked Rewards [UR] Yugi Muto Starter Deck [UR]

Evaluation

Rating	B+

Pros

Clears the entire field, possibly turning the duel around when going against difficult enemy.

Cons

Low attack when not a lot of cards on the field.
Leaves you open after your attack.

Tips, related cards, skills

Paying the Life Points will enable draw skills like “Draw Sense” or “Destiny Draw” for your next turn.
Recommended to use when your opponent’s LP is low enough to be killed from the attack.
Cost Down to reduce the amount of sacrifice needed for tribute which can be good to increase attack if you have more than 1 monsters.
Gandora can be tribute set on the field and changed to face up defense position using Desert Sunlight which will not be considered as normal, flip or special summoned so it will not be destroyed in the end phase of that turn.

Cost Down

Desert Sunlight

Desert Sunlight

Destiny Draw (skill)

Destiny Draw (skill)

Decks

Gandora Deck

Gandora
Gandora

Classifications

Actions	Sends from field to Graveyard / Sends itself from field to Graveyard
Banished categories	Banishes from field / Banishes from your field / Banishes from your opponent's field
Monster/Spell/Trap categories	Destroys Spell Cards / Destroys Trap Cards / Destroys Monster Cards
Summoning categories	Cannot Special Summon
Stat changes	This card gains ATK

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Anonymous

Silent magican lv 8 is better be able to get it when Yugi muto is unlockable

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Anonymous Reply

Silent magican lv 8 is better be able to get it when Yugi muto is unlockable

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Silent magican lv 8 is better be able to get it when Yugi muto is unlockable

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Silent magican lv 8 is better be able to get it when Yugi muto is unlockable

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Silent magican lv 8 is better be able to get it when Yugi muto is unlockable

TuC

Hey guys I'm playing the game for two weeks and I've just unlocked Yugi and when I read GANDORA text I found it's like another monster than the anime version, it destroys spell/trap and gains atk points to atk !!
so are all cards diff from the anime ??

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Anonymous Reply

Unless Konami prints a 4th "Gandora" monster that's less OP

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DaSwifta Reply

Actually, considering the DSOD world is a thing, and Gandora-X is a DSOD card, and was used in the anime to counter Deep-Eyes (DSOD Kaiba's level 30 reward card) we might get it as DSOD Yugi's level 30 reward card, or maybe even his signature (though I think his signature card will probably be Dark Magician considering his deck in the movie and all).

<< Anonymous(DaSwifta)

Anonymous Reply

Yeah, in today era meta, I think Gandora-X would be fine in DL.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

yeah, why not?

Anonymous

Max 1500?

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Anonymous Reply

That's not how this card works. You pay half your current LP, not 2000 LP. So if you had 4000 LP, first you would pay 2000 LP to Summon it with Masoleum of the Emperor, then you would pay 1000 LP to activate this card's effect.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

The max atk is 3900 by destroying 13 cards. 7 on your opponent's side and 6 on your own. 13x300 = 3900

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Wrong cards like raigeki will power gandora up for the whole turn so if you for example if you throw out wattail dragon and use gift of the maytr then you will have gandora at 2.5k attack plus idk 5 other cards between you and your opponent annnnnd boom 4k and you can maytr away stronger cards for more attack or more than one card

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RTM Reply

But if you summon this card, by an another way.. protecting him with "Half Shut" and in your turn just turn him to attack position, he become's permanently in your monster zone. So it's a good weapon!! ;)

John

So I faced Yugi Mutou in plat, then he summon Gandora and activy the effect and gain 1600 or 1800. In my hand only have swift gaia fierce knight. It attacked me directly. Then my turn i draw enemy controller, I set it so in normal situation I can summon swift gaia, but i cant. So is bug or other effect of Gandora?

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Anonymous Reply

Confirmed Access Denied skill since it does not allow you to Normal/Special summon Effect monsters nor use their effects. Your Swift Gaia is effect monster so, yep.

<< Anonymous(John)

Anonymous Reply

Maybe he have Access denied skills, used after activate gandora effect

<< Anonymous(John)

Anonymous Reply

Yugi muto uses the skill access denied which states that neither player cant summon an effect monster and effects of effect monsters are blocked, for one turn.
Including effects of effect monsters that activate in the hand.

<< Anonymous(John)

Anonymous Reply

You had enemy controller in your hand

Anonymous

Just like Daedalus, this card is vulnerable to any position changing cards such as Etaqua, Econ, or Kuriboh. Does anyone know how to over come this weakness except using desert sunlight?

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Anonymous Reply

You can't overwhelm if you nuke the fuild :p

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Anonymous Reply

Its effect clears the field of e-con and windstorm

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Edgar81539 Reply

The opponent can quite simply activate their enemy controller/etaqua when Gandora is summoned, meaning it won't get to attack and it will be sent to graveyard on the End Phase making the card worthless.

<< Anonymous(Edgar81539)

Anonymous Reply

True. Setting it with Half Shut to protect it is the way to go. May also need Desert Sunlight.

DaSwifta

Wouldn't Forbidden Chalice also prevent it from killing itself?

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DaSwifta Reply

Right right right right right. Thanks

<< Anonymous(DaSwifta)

Anonymous Reply

Axe of fools? it gets 1K attack lul

<< Anonymous(DaSwifta)

Anonymous Reply

Why not just use acces denied skill

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

i use that and it works great

Anon

Wtf. Went up against this thing in duel links: not only did ishizu set it with NO TRIBUTES, but she cleared the field turn after turn without it being destroyed by its own effect (she had no spells/traps to enable this btw).

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Anonymous Reply

Dunno about the "no tribute" part, but if gandora was set and later flipped face-up and survived that, his effect won't send him to the graveyard. Being flipped face-up doesn't count as being summoned, thus his effect won't be triggered.

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OTK Reply

"if this card was Normal or Flip Summoned this turn: Send it to the Graveyard."

Because it was flipped during your opponent's turn, it won't be sent to the graveyard.

<< Anonymous(Anon)

Anonymous Reply

Half shot works because face-up is not a summoning

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

"Flipped face up" flipping face up isnta summon, but its a flipped face up... It dies when you flip it.

Anonymous

I have battled Yugi so many times (14) times and counting and still not a Gandora Card. Anyone know an easy way? I've had over 5000points in every battle and still no Gandoora card.

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Anonymous Reply

I feel like people say they got this card by losing more than by beating Yugi.

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Anonymous Reply

Maybe I will have to loose to him then. I've won so many duels against him and still no Gandora so maybe I will have to loose once and see if I get it.

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Anonymous Reply

I won more than 15 times with 7k Score and No Gandoora or Union attack till now :3

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Anonymous Reply

Just got him by losing horribly due to foolishly trying to use auto-battle as a fast forward button.

Anonymous

Lv 30 yugi

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Mr. X Reply

Woah lucky, too bad i didn't get this :(

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Nyzar Reply

Give me your account please HAHAHHA

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Zerber_78 Reply

:C You're Lucky. But you lose on 30 lvl duelists...

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Anonymous Reply

@Zerber_78
Lvl 30 Yugi has three sphere kuribohs though

Anonyboy

Currently 2 skills succeed utilizing this: Red-Eyes w/ Evolve, and Access Denied. As one who has tested the Red Eyes Evolve deck, but haven't had the Access Denied skill drop yet, I can highly recommend this card. 2 Copies in the Evolve variant is best, because Evolve is evil and only works from the deck.

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Anonymous Reply

what's your decklist for Evolve Gandora?

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Anonyboy Reply

Here it is. Critical weaknesses: Some cards, like the Red Stone, can be bricky. In fact, this deck can brick bad. It also has very limited protection. It will be less bricky once I get 1-2 more Insights, which I will replace Behemoths with. The 2nd Gandora is a must, because Evolve only summons from Deck. That said, Gandora in the hand is a bad thing. Feel free to experiment.

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Anonyboy Reply

Lol whoops forgot to actually upload the deck. Here it is:

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GTAceofSpade Reply

I've been testing a few builds which has got me from Gold 1 to Legend 1.. Right now the main build I'm using is the Zombie based build + some other stuff..

Gandora x2
REBD x3
Insight & Return x3
REZD x2
Red Eyes Wyvern
Card of Red Stone
Marmitting Captain x2
Gozuki
Skull Zombie
Bacon Saver
Lady of D
Econ x3
Mausoleum of the Emperor x2
Windstorm
Curse of Anubis

Bahaa

Guys I found an idea to make infinite loop,first,you must have Paleozoic on your side of the field(those cards are trap card so they can be a monster when they are on graveyard and another trap card is activated),then you can summon gandora with mausoleum of emperor,finally activated gandora effect,so Paleozoic is unaffected by effect of any monster they still on field and you can activate gandora effect again to make infinite loop

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Anonymous Reply

It can't be special summoned with mausoleum of the emperor.

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Anonymous Reply

Maso isnt a special summon. This combo does work. See Gunsblazings video on it for proof

<< Anonymous(Bahaa)

Anonymous Reply

That's useful if you want to get down to 1 LP for whatever reason, but it only gains ATK for the cards that it destroys, so if you don't destroy anything, it won't gain any ATK.

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Anonymous Reply

meme deck

Itsmecoli

I just got mine and its ugly

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Engrish Reply

still grats bro , i wish i have a prismatic one to add to my collections of prismatoc i have 14 right now

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Anonymous Reply

I call 🔥. Isn't this just your reward from the KC cup? I have never seen a prismatic drop from a legendery duelist.

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EZ Reply

Thats no 🔥 my friend. I got a prismatic Gravekeeper's Priestess from Ishizu back then :)

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